Congressional Testimony June 13, 1995 #3 (Part 1 of 2) Page: 1 of 469
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STATEMENT OF SENATOR RICHARD SHELBY
BEFORE THE DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE AND REALIGNMENT COMMISSION,
* TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1995
Chairman Dixon and Members of the Commission, yesterday you heard that the permits
required to move the Army's Chemical School and its training facilities from Fort McClellan
to Fort Leonard Wood are in complete disarray. How did this happen when your instructions
were so clear? To try to understand what occurred, we need to examine the process the Army
used to get to this point.
When the previous BRAC Commission decided in 1993 to continue the Chemical
School's training program at Fort McClellan, that Commission wisely recommended "if the
Secretary of Defense wants to move the Chemical School and the Chemical Defense Training
Facility in the future. that the Army pursue all the required permits and certifications from the
new site prior to the 1995 Base Closure process." (emphasis added). (See page 207 of June 23,
1993, BRAC hearing transcript attached at Tab A). Moreover, it was clear from the 1993
BRAC Commission's discussion that (a) they expected the Army to obtain the necessary permits
in the two year interim between 1993 and 1995, and (b) the Army should have the required
permits in hand "before they bring it back to BRAC '95." (emphasis added). (See 1993 BRAC
transcript at Tab A, pages 200-201 and 205). However, not a single permit application was
submitted to anyone until March 1, 1995, after the Secretary of Defense made his 1995 base
closure recommendations.
When you began your review of the Defense Secretary's closure recommendations in
March of this year, you wisely picked up where the previous Commission left off. During
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